Media Bay - new action: "Insert as take in selected item, preserving start offset"

1: Insert an audio file on a track

2: Option + drag the audio item to "move item contents" (i.e. adjust the "start in source" value for the file to something other than 0:00.0000)

3: Open Media Bay and find a new audio file

4: Right-click the new file and choose "Insert as take in selected item"

5: The file inserts as a new take, but the start offset is 0 (i.e. the new take doesn't adhere to the start offset created for the initial item in step 2)


It would be great to be able to have a dedicated action to "Insert as take in selected item, preserving start in source value", to allow new takes to be added which obey the start offset value of the preceding take.

The workaround (starting at step 2) is to duplicate the active take, then go into Item Properties on the newly-created take and hit "Take media source -> select new file", but this is pretty finicky.

The same thing applies to "Use as media source for selected item" as well - when doing this from Media Bay, it resets the Start offset of the item to 0... to make sure the existing item's Start offset is obeyed, you have to go into item properties and hit "Take media source -> select new file".

Media Bay - new action: "Insert as take in selected item, preserving start offset"